Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Teen Disappears After Date: Couple Accused of Murder, Dismemberment | Crime Alert 03.25.25

Transcript

Teen Disappears After Date: Couple Accused of Murder, Dismemberment | Crime Alert 03.25.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime News Now. Miranda Corsett's,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: seventeen reported missing from Saint Petersburg when she doesn't come
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: home from a date. Investigators find Stephen Gress, thirty five,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: sets up a date with Miranda at his home, but
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: when the teen arrives, she also makes his girlfriend, Michelle Brande's.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Not long into the date, Branda's flies into a rage
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: over a missing ring, accusing Miranda of being a thief.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: The couple then torture Miranda, tying her to a chair,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: beating her. Miranda dies when the couple shoves a pool
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: ball into her mouth and wraps her face with plastic wrap.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: Gress and Branda's then dismember Miranda and leave her body
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: in a dumpster.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: Nancy Will. Police believe Miranda died in Gress and Branda's
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: Saint Petersburg, Florida home. They believed the couple drove her
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: body to a home and largo, where they found evidence
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: of a dismemberment. A witness tipped police off to the
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: murder and believed the couple had dumped Miranda's body at
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: a gas station where Branda's works, but police had yet
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: to locate Miranda. Gress was already in custody when connected
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: to Miranda's disappearance on drug possession and pointing a dangerous
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: weapon a harpoon at his partner. Michelle Branda's later turned
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: herself in.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: Stephen Gress thirty five. Michelle Branda's thirty seven charged with
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: kidnap and murder After a grocery run, Shelley Hardwick gets
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: in an argument with her boyfriend in their hotel room.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: The argument turns into a screaming match. Shelley Hardwick grabs
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: a large watermelon and hurls it at the boyfriend. He dodges,
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: but he is covered in watermelon and seeds when it
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: explodes against the cabinet. Cops are called, while Shelley Hardwick
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: claims she only threw the watermelon out of frustration and
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: didn't intend to hurt her bow. The fifty one year
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: old Shelley Hardwick arrested for domestic battery by watermelon. More
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this Now with the latest
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news crime allize John Linley.
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: South Carolina is set to carry out its fifth execution
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: since resuming capital punishment last autumn after a thirteen year hiatus.
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: The state Supreme Court has scheduled Michael maddy to die
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: on April eleventh at six pm at a Columbia prison.
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: The forty one year old Maddi was convicted of murdering
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: an off duty police officer. He must choose between lethal injection, electrocution,
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: or a firing squad, the same method used earlier this
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: month for the nation's first execution by bullets in fifteen years.
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: If he does not decide by March twenty eighth, the
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: electric chair will be used. Meanwhile, the court has postponed
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: the execution of Stephen Bixby, convicted of killing two officers
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: in a two thousand three land dispute. A judge must
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: first rule on his mental competence. A psychologist says Bixby
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: understands his death sentence, but also believes blood found on
• 2:57
  Speaker 3: his clothes the night of the killings contains the debasa
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: of Jesus Christ. Three other inmates have been executed in
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: the States since September, all by lethal injection. A Pennsylvania
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: man has been sentenced for his role in a series
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: of high profile art and memorabilia thefts that spanned over
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: two decades. With more Here's Sidney Sunder of Crime Online.
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: Forty nine year old Thomas Trotta of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, received
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: an eight year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: the theft of major artwork. Trota was part of a
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: theft ring responsible for burglarizing twenty museums and institutions across
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: several states, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: North Dakota, and Washington, d c. Among the stolen items
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: were Andy Warhol's silkscreen La Grand Passon and Jackson Pollock's
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: nineteen forty nine oil on canvas Springs Winter, both taken
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: from the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania in two thousand
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: and five. The group also targeted sports memorabilia, stealing nine
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: World Series rings and two MVP plaques belonging to baseball
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: legend Yogi Bearra. Trotta's attorney, Joe DeAndrea, acknowledged his client's
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: central role in the burglaries, stating he was the main burglar.
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: He was the one that went into the institutions and
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: burglarized them. The stolen items were often melted down and
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: sold for a fraction of their value, leading to the
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: loss of irreplaceable cultural artifacts.
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: Despite Trotta's cooperation with authorities, many stolen artworks and memorabilia
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: remain uncovered.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Antonio Sanchez, twenty three, works at mount Olive
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Pickles in mount Olive, North Carolina. Antonio clucks out two
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: thirty pm Feb eight, planning to fish his usual spot
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: that afternoon. When he's still not home by nine pm,
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: his family reports him missing. Sure enough, mount Olive p
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: D finds his car parked at the cliffs of the
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: New State Park where he likes to fish. Officers hiked
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: down to his favorite spot find his gear, but no Antonio.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: Searches by Wayne County Sheriffs, mount Olive p D, and
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: North Carolina State Parks r MAC, Water Response and Seven
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: Springs Fire Department turn up nothing. Antonio Sanchez Hispanic five eight,
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty five pounds, shoulder length, black hair,
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: brown eyes. If you have any information on Antonio Sanchez,
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: please call Wayne County North Carolina Emergency Services nine one
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: nine seven three one one four nine three. For the
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: latest crime in justice news, go to crime online dot
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: com and please join us for our daily podcast Crime Stories,
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: where we do our best to find missing people, especially
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: children and solve unsolved homicides with this crime Lark. I'm
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace